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Matthew
The amount of electricity you can use is not determined by what hook up unit you have, it is determined by the electricity supply at the camp site. In the UK most camp sites allow you to use 10 amps of electricity at a time, some will even allow you to use 16 amps at a time but in Europe, you might find that the sites only allow you 6 amps or even less. The first thing you need to do is find out what electricity supply the camp site has.
Next you need to work our how many amps each of your electrical appliances uses. To do this, look on the bottom of the appliance and find where it tells you the wattage. Divide the wattage by 240 and this will tell you how many amps that appliance uses.
For example, if you have a 1000 watt fan heater divide 1000 by 240 and you will get 4.2 amps. Once you work this out for all your appliances make a list and take it with you each time you go camping. Basically, if the site allows you 10 amps then all the appliances you have plugged in at any one time must not add up to more than 10amps or else you will trip the electrics and have a very grumpy site manager to deal with!
You can plug in any electrical appliances you want to your hookup as long as the total amps do not exceed the camp sites limit.
I hope this helps
------------- Pixie
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